The Turtle's Den

Havne't Been here in...

2006-02-18T13:20:00.000-05:00

FOREVER!

Promise to get this site back up and moving :)

Me...According to online quizzes.

2005-11-03T17:51:00.000-05:00

You Should Get a MD (Doctor of Medicine)

You're both compassionate and brilliant - a rare combination.You were born to be a doctor.

What Advanced Degree Should You Get?

You Are

A Drunk Pumpkin Face
You would make a good pumpkin martini.

What's" Your Pumpkin Face?

You Are Somewhat Machiavellian

You're not going to mow over everyone to get ahead...But you're also powerful enough to make things happen for yourself.You understand how the world works, even when it's an ugly place.You just don't get ugly yourself - unless you have to!

How Machiavellian Are You?

Your Pimp Name Is...

Nurse Glider

What's" Your Pimp Name?

Your Monster Profile

Hungry Slimer
You Feast On: Fried Chicken
You Lurk Around In: Olive Gardens
You Especially Like to Torment: Hicks

What's" Your Monster Name?

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to good manners and elegance.
In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored.
You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.
You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic.
Your ideal relationship is open. Both of you can talk about everything... no secrets.
Your risk of cheating is low. Even if you're tempted, you'd try hard not to do it.
You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.
In this moment, you think of love as something you can get or discard anytime. You're feeling self centered.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated.At work and school, you do best when you're organizing.When you love someone, you tend to worry about them.
In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic.Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management.You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

The Birth Order Predictor

I am an only child!!!

What Your Underwear Says About You

You tend to buy new underwear instead of doing laundry.
You're comfortable in your own skin - and don't care to impress anyone.

The Underwear Oracle

Cheese Pizza

Traditional and comforting.You focus on living a quality life.You're not easily impressed with novelty.Yet, you easily impress others.

What's" Your Pizza Personality?

Your Animal Personality

Your Power Animal: Eagle
Animal You Were in a Past Life: Whale
You are active, a challenger, and optimistic.Hard-working, you are always working towards a set goal.

The Animal Personality Test

In a Past Life...

You Were: A Blind Monk.
Where You Lived: Spain.
How You Died: Decapitation.

Who Were You In a Past Life?

Your Seduction Style: Prized Object

The seduction game you play is tried, true, and still effective: hard to get.You know that the best seducers turn the tables - and get their crush to seduce them.The one running has the power, and you're a challenge that is worth the chase.
You are a master of enticing and pulling back. Giving a little and taking some away.You are controlled enough to know rewards come after a long seduction dance.Even though you want to call, email, or say "I love you" first - you don't!
You're style is the perfect mix of hot and cold - so much so that you have many suitors.Think Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's ... or any of those creepy guys from the Bachelor.You're skilled at inspiring a chase. The real test is picking the person to slow down for.

What Kind of Seducer Are You?

You Are Apple Cider

Smooth and comforting. But downright nasty when cold.

What Part of Fall Are You?

Your Mood Ring is Blue-Green

Inner emotions chargedYet, somewhat relaxed

Mood Ring Generator

Your Personality Profile

You are dependable, popular, and observant.Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do.
You are unique, creative, and expressive.You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!

The World's Shortest Personality Test

Your 1920's Name is:

Fannie Verda

What's" Your 1920's Name?

Your Daddy Is Ozzy Osbourne

What You Call Him: Pops
Why You Love Him: He's your sugar daddy

Who's" Your Daddy?

Halloween Pumpkins!

2005-10-23T19:40:00.000-04:00

These are our pumpkins this year!! These are the new fake pumpkins that you can carve. They are great! Of course the first one is Joey our wonderful little boy. And then I figured the "welcome" one was cute too!

Kat

First Felting Project!!!

2005-10-23T19:38:00.000-04:00

Here it is, my first felting project. I just love it!!

Kat

Crazy!!!

2005-10-23T16:22:00.000-04:00

Thats how things have been lately!!

Crocheting- lets see. Oh, I found out who my secret pal was....It was Becks (Becky)!!! She has been absolutely wonderful!!! Let's see if I can list everything I received off the top of my head...A wonderful afghan (I think the fading is beautiful), 2 Skeins of 100% wool with Koolaid to dye (I can't wait to do this), a wonderful book on felting (I am not determined to learn to knit as well), a baby afghan book (which is absolutely perfect since I am making a baby blanket for my bestfriend), "Herman" the turtle figurine/candle (I'm so impressed with him...he is absolutely perfect and will always be known as Herman), a wonderful very soft cat bed which my cats sleep in ALL THE TIME (they love it- we have it on top of our TV cabinet!), a perfect pumpkin hot pad (I am so interested to learn how to do this....its amazing!), a turtle keychain (which is already on my keys), a book- "Turtle Diary" (which I am starting today on my way to Traverse City), the cutest turtle handkerchief, "Quakers the Duck" ( ), and the cutest stuffed animal turtle (I think his name is going to be Stan), turtle scissors (awesome) and then most amazing scissors holder (its cross-stitched and beaded)....since I received her wonderful reveal package I have completed my first dye and felting project....a really cute bag that I will post pics of soon.

TTC- Things are overall crappy. T and I got the results of our tests back and I am "all clear", but his SA came back a little low on morphology...so needless to say things have been stressful. I wasn't able to get in with the dr. again until the 31st (so we are missing another month). Then I decided that I just didn't think this dr. could provide everything we are going to need (he is just an OB/GYN) so I called and made an appointment with a local RE (really good and well known) for 11/08. So hopefully we can get things moving. I'm thinking we will go straight to IUI, but the doctors may have other ideas ;) . T and I have been all over each other (not in a good way) about everything. Just bitching and moaning. We both think it has to do with the extra stress of TTC so we are trying to take it easy. I bought the book "The Conception Chronicles" which is really humorous and have been loving it. Trying to insert some humor into this horrible process.

Promise to be back and post a pic of my latest project soon!

Kat

Ok, I seriously need to get here more often...

2005-10-12T08:28:00.000-04:00

Lets see...what has happened since I was last here. Apparently, a lot since it has been so long.

Crocheting- I am working on finishing up my 35 squares for the swap. I swore to myself that I would get them done early, but here I am 8 days before I have to send them and I still have 10 to finish. I have been working on some projects for my SP at crochetville. I made a Ghost Halloween decoration (link) and a turtle potholder. What else have I been crocheting?? Seems like there should be more. Oh, I have also been working on snowflake ornaments to give as gifts for Christmas. I really like how each one is different.

TTC-Trevor and I went to see my new doctor. I really like him a lot, although he won't return our calls. I had a HSG done and my tubes are clear. T had a SA done last week and we are hopefully going to get the results today. Depending on what those are, we are hopefully going to get a plan together for the coming months.

Family- Dave's soccer team is doing well. We had some heartbreakers there for awhile, but they have seemed to pull things together. He starts Conference playoffs tomorrow so that will be fun. I am really going to miss when soccer is over. There were some articles in the paper about him...so cute! I will have to post them here when I have a chance.

Friends- We went to Traverse's City last weekend for Alex's birthday (fellow resident's son). He turned 2! We stayed at the Wolf Lodge. It was a lot of fun. They have an indoor water park!!

I think thats about it :)

Kat

Wow!!!

2005-09-11T17:44:00.000-04:00

So much for trying to post here everyday...that didn't work at all. Things have been really busy, but in a good way.

I have been trying to get to all of Dave's soccer games. He is the co-captain of the varsity team this year...I love it! So far there have been a couple of horrible games...its seems like they don't have a lot of motivation. But we had one game go into overtime that we won...so that was very fun!

Last weekend I took Trevor on a surprise vacation weekend to Chicago. We stayed at the Best Western Inn of Chicago (downtown). We went and saw the Body Worlds Exhibit (http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/pages/home.asp) at the Museum of Science and Industy. It was absolutely amazing. I can't even begin to describe it!! I would recommend that everyone go see it!!

This weekend we went back to Chicago for my second cousins wedding. It was very nice and it was nice to be able to see all the family again this year. We are starting to plan the Christmas party already and I guess I am going to be helping with the kids activity. It should be fun.

Ok, I need to get ready for the week, but promise to start posting more!

Kat

Catching Up!

2005-08-22T10:11:00.000-04:00

Wow, I didn't realize I hadn't been here in so long. Well, I guess I have been here doing technical stuff but not posting. One of my 101 things is to blog everyday for a month so I am going to start that today (08.22.05)

TTC- We are still waiting. My chart was looking really good two days ago and now its just so-so. I think today is day 9 so I will test on day 12 or so if my temp has plumeted.

Crochet- I have been working on my halloween table topper. It's working up slowly now, but I am still very interested in completing it. I also need to finish up my squares for the swap. I don't want to have to be doing them the last minute.

Christmas- Yes, I am already thinking about Christmas. I think I have an idea for Trevor's collegues and some of our friends, so I am going to order some things and try to get organized ahead of time this year and not panic two days before.

Trevor- Well, Trevor was on call most of the weekend so I stayed with mom. And get this. He is on call today, friday and sunday and then he will be at camp wednesday and thursday. So I will get to see him tuesday night for a couple hours and then saturday night for a couple hours. Yuck! He promised next month will be better.

Misc.- I am reading a really good book called "The Great Influenza"...its about the influenza epidemic of 1912. I saw a short documentary on it and thought that I would enjoy reading it. I also got a book called "The Hot Zone" about ebola and "Hitler's Scientist" about the Nazi scientist and their experiments (should be interesting and horrible).

Hoping to work on some craft stuff tonight when I get home since I have the house to myself.

kat

Happy Monday!

2005-08-15T11:17:00.000-04:00

Ok, not sure that its so happy, but it is Monday :) Spent the weekend with my mom as Trevor went up north with one of his buddies from med school. It was a nice, quiet weekend. I still have a cold from a week ago and my mom just got sick this weekend so we laid low. I started working on a new crochet project. Its a holiday table topper for Halloween. I'm hoping get it done before the end of October, but we will see. I really like working with thread. I didn't think I would, but it seems to work up pretty quickly. Promise to post pics of my progress soon.

On the TTC front- think I may have ovulated this weekend on saturday. I'm so tired of this whole thing I try not to think about it. So if I did O I will be testing on the 27th..ugh, the 2 week wait is horrible.

Ok, must get back to work, but I'm planning on shopping for my SP today!!

Kat

JOEYS HOME!!!!

2005-08-09T22:17:00.000-04:00

We got a call tonight from my mom saying that some called her and said that they had Joey!!! We went over and it was him....!!! He's so skinny, but other than he is just wonderful!! I can't believe that he made it home. I never thought we would see him again. I'm going to be taking some pictures of him tomorrow so I can make a scrapbook page of this horrible event. Ok, off to spend some more time with him!

kat

Secret Pal Surprise

2005-08-08T18:25:00.000-04:00

I got home from work today and had a surprise waiting for me!! I was having a ho-hum day and it was so wonderful to have something waiting for me. My SP is the best!! I received homespun yarn, tea, "tickle" yarn (thinking of a project to use this for already), a beautiful butterfly pen, a cute turtle washcloth, a kitty that looks just like Pede and a turtle change purse that I am going to beg my SP for the pattern for...it is SO cute!! And then when I came to post a thank-you I had an email too!!! I can't wait to find out who my SP is!!! Thank you SP if you read this!!

Kailani's Sweater

2005-08-08T18:23:00.000-04:00

Here is the sweater that I finished for my neice Kailani. It worked up really quick and I was very pleased with it.

Happy Hump Day!

2005-08-03T10:15:00.000-04:00

Not too much to report today. Had a good night with Trevor last night which was nice since he is on call tonight and won't be home until sometime tomorrow. I'm planning on going out to eat with my mom tonight.

Spent some time working on a couple squares last night for the swap. I found a pattern that I really like. I will see if I can find the link.

Other than that I spent the night working on my 101 things in 1001 day list. That will be coming soon. I think I'm up to 70 things.

I also spent some time making something for my secret pal. I would like to post it, but that would give it away. I will post the pics of everything at the end of the swap.

Kat

Secret Pal

2005-08-01T21:40:00.000-04:00

Almost forgot...I got my assigned secret pal today!! And I received an e-card from the person that has me. I'm so excited!

Kat

Ripple...

2005-08-01T21:36:00.000-04:00

Here is the ripple that I sent to my good friend Andrea. I really enjoyed making it...definitely worked up fast.

Kat

Happy Monday!

2005-08-01T11:15:00.000-04:00

Things are starting to look up! I had a nice long weekend with my mom to kind of reflect on my life and see where I want to go from here. My reflection kind of started when I came upon a blog that 101 things to do in 1001 days. Its just what is sound like...you come up with 101 things you would like to complete in 1001 days. I have started my list, but still have a ways to go. I will be posting it when its done.

TTC- On the TTC front we are out this month, but I have a doctor's appointment on Friday so hopefully he will have some suggestions.

Joey- Joey, our wonderful cat is still missing. We had a call last night from someone that found a cat, but it wasn't him. I am going to go to the Animal control Office and the Humane Society today just to check again.

Crochet- Didn't get hardly anything done this weekend. I still only have 4 squares done for the swap, but I still have some time. I am also starting a cute dress for a baby. Not sure who its going to, just coulnd't resist it.

Other than that, not much is going on! Going to post a pic of my ripple in the next post!

kat

Horrible...

2005-07-28T20:43:00.000-04:00

Everything has been horrible lately.

First...Joey, the most wonderful cat ever, is missing. He accidentaly got out of the house Monday night. During the night we had a horrible thunderstorm and we haven't seen him since. We have spent hours and hours searching and nothing. I went to the humane society to see if someone found him and nothing. Trevor called area vets to see if any cats have been brought in and nothing. We spend hours putting up posters and nothing. It's like he disappeared out of thin air. I just can't stand this feeling. I would rather have a body or something than just never know what happended to him. He really is the sweetest cat I have ever met, and that means something with as many cats as I have known.

Second...I think we are out again this month for TTC. Things just are looking good. However, I do have a doctor's appointment next Friday to get things figured out. I was really hoping it wouldn't have to come to that.

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Now onto crochet things. I finshed a ripple afghan for a friend that is having a baby. I was really happy with the end result and I hope she will be too! I will post some pics after she receives it as she may peek in here :) I also finished a sweater for my new niece Kailani!! I even put her initial "K" on the front. I will have pics of that this weekend. Other than that I have been working on a random square swap that I joined. I am really having fun with that.

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I'm spending the weekend with my mom as Trevor is working 3rd shift this week and I can't stand sitting at home by myself waiting to see if Joey comes home. I think we are planning on going to the county fair to see the animals and have elephant ears. I have to have elephant ears!!! I just hope that things start to pick up. I'm tired of feeling crappy all the time.

Kat

Back..

2005-07-18T12:02:00.000-04:00

Wow, I haven't been here in awhile. I have been crocheting a ton lately. I am almost done with my ripple blanket that will be going to a friend, but I will take pics. I have also joined a square swap on crochetville.org, which should be really fun. I think I have 3 of the 35 squares done so I need to get going. I also joined a autumn secret pal thread which I think will be really neat.

On the TTC side, I think I am 2dpo today so I have about 12 more days before testing. I hate the 2ww. So if this month doesn't work we will be heading for more testing and possible infertility drugs. I'm glad that we at least have a plan.

Bert and Sal seem to have a cold and haven't been that active. I'm worried about them since turtles can get pnemonia really fast, but they are still eating so I am going to hold out taking them to the vet.

Let see, anything else?? Nope I think thats it. Trevor is working 2nd shift this week which is bad because we never see each other, but he will be off for the weekend, so I guess its OK.

Kat

Recovering for the holiday weekend...

2005-07-05T12:59:00.000-04:00

Trevor and I spent this weekend with my mom. Trevor had to work Saturday and Sunday so it was nice not to be alone. I worked on my "Misty Turtle" quite a bit this weekend and he is really coming along. I should have pictures soon!!

Jana- I'm not too sure about the patterns. Let me look and I will get back to you soon!!

:)Kat

Pictures!

2005-07-01T20:16:00.000-04:00

And finally my most recent project...

Diagonal Box Stitch Baby Blanket- I really loved this stitch, it worked up very quickly.

Pictures!

2005-07-01T20:15:00.000-04:00

Green Hooded Baby Blanket

Pictures!

2005-07-01T20:13:00.000-04:00

Pink Hooded Baby Blankets

Pictures!

2005-07-01T20:12:00.000-04:00

Pink/White Baby Sweater- this project was one of my first and I need to figure out what to do with the ends that I cut to short.

Pictures!!!!

2005-07-01T20:06:00.000-04:00

Here are some of my most recent projects!!

Striped Blanket- I made this project over a year ago and have put it away in storage incase we have a baby soon! The yellow really isn't as gold as in the picture.

Busy Busy Busy...

2005-07-01T16:40:00.000-04:00

I haven't been around lately...too busy crocheting I guess. I am in the process of taking pictures of my finished projects and have been busily working on my "misty turtle" which I think will be the mascot of my blog!! Promise to post pictures soon!

Kat

Opening Day!!

2005-06-20T14:10:00.000-04:00

This is the first day of my new blog...i'm excited!! This blog will be dedicated to all things crochet (and probably some other crafty stuff). I have been crocheting for approximately 3 years and love it. I have some finished projects at home that I have tucked away that I will take pics of and have about 5 projects that I am currently working on.

A bit about me...my name is Katherine and I am 26 years old. I'm a social worker, working with teen moms (Love to make stuff for my girl's babys). I am married to Trevor (now Dr. Trevor- he just graduated from medical school) and we live in Michigan (Grand Rapids).

My live other than family, work and crafts are my children. I have 4 furbabies...my cats, Pede, Joey and Evie and my dog, Callie. I also have to shellbabies...turtles, Bert and Sal. Pictures coming soon.